Kaiser Permanente paid Baltimore mayor over $100K for books while seeking city contract
By Admin | April 04, 2019
Kaiser Permanente paid Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh about $114,000 for about 20,000 copies of her self-published children's books while the healthcare organization was seeking a lucrative contract from a spending board controlled by the mayor, The Baltimore Sun reported this week.
Kaiser, a healthcare provider and insurer based in Oakland, Calif., is the second healthcare organization to be embroiled in the controversial book sales.
Seven notes:
1. The Baltimore mayor is facing criticism over the profit she made from selling a children's book series to businesses linked to city government.
2. In March, news broke that the University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore was a major buyer of Ms. Pugh's "Healthy Holly" children's books. The medical system paid Ms. Pugh $500,000 for 100,000 books.
For more on this story, please read, Kaiser Permanente paid Baltimore mayor over $100K for books while seeking city contract, by Becker's Hospital Review.
